Re: GRAB Version 2.2 Released!

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:22:58PM -0400, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 14:07, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> > #     Added the --nlp so when doing searches, local dependancies are not
> > #     checked.
> 
> 
> by this do you mean that dependencies of the already installed rpm's
> aren't checked....is this to get around conflicts with already installed
> rpms?

Not exactly. When doing the dependency checking, the currently installed
(provides) data is not checked. Thus all dependancies are attempted to be
resolved by GRAB's remote provides database. This should hopefully make doing
distribution upgrades a closer reality (still not tested by me).

Greg
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